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I hope you will join me in continuing to slow down as I share six poems and brief reflections on them for the next three months. … We are all children of God and we belong to one another. Let us break down the many walls that divide us and enter into the beautiful together.

Koinonia stands with African Americans, deploring violence and demanding justice in all areas of the criminal justice system: police departments, courts, legal representation, and jails and prisons. The peace that Koinonia has dedicated its life to since 1942 will only come when the violence of the system comes to an end.

It is about an encounter. It is about reading slowly, sometimes even aloud, listening and pausing to reflect on a word or a phrase that captures you. It is about letting the text work on you rather than you working on the text.

What about the coronavirus though? What if instead of an enemy, it is a mirror reflecting back to us the real enemy? No, it can’t do so consciously, but what if it is serving as a mirror nonetheless?

Divisiveness is producing rotten fruit. Is that the fruit we want to serve ourselves, our children or to others? Is that the life we want to live? Mother Teresa offers a better way.